A VIDEO game made in Singapore could soon have its debut on the world stage, after it beat almost 350 other entries in a global game development competition. The puzzle game, made by a team of seven young local developers from the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab, including Computer Science undergraduate Bruce Chia, came out tops at a contest organised by technology giant Microsoft.

A number of auction websites started by Singaporeans have hit the Internet in recent months. One of them is www.chupr.com , a website created by Information Systems students Leong Hanyang and Huang Renzhi.

SPH Search and NUS Computing signed a new agreement on new and more efficient ways to find information from various sources, including the Internet. Project leader Prof. Chua Tat Seng said the researchers hope to find ways to provide better context and location-oriented answers for search engine users.